The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-18

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have struck for increased wages.
The Lock-Stitch Fence Company of Joliet
H., has been closed out on judgments ag
grega;ing over $4,000, with big creditors
TO hear from.
Attica, o., was burned with all its contents
the other day. Rosperf. who was q man
seventy years of age, rushed into the burn
ing building to save $500 in silver and gold
which he had concealed in the house, and
was so horribly burned that he died in Z
few hours.
A. F. WELLINGTON, cashier OF the de
funct Baltimore Il Ohio Telegraph Com.
pany IN st. Louis, has skipped with the
October receipts, amounting to 3. coo.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, suffered severely on
the Sth by fire which destroyed Kahn &
Co.. grocery and a number OF other stores,
dwellings and business houses.
SOME of the arch timbers in tunnel
near Coshocton, O., fell the other morning,
killing one man and fatally wounding an.
other.
SCARLET fever is raging in and near
Westfield, Ill. The schools in some Of the
districts have had to be closed indefinitely.
Not many deaths have been reported how
ever.
CAPTAIN ALFRED CUTTING, the renowned
Western boat-builder, died at his residence
in Metropolis. H., recently of typho-mala.
rial fever. Captain Cutting was born in
England in 1922. He came to America with
his father in 1888, and was especially well
known in ST. Louis.
THE saloons of Evansville, Ind, are to be
closed Sundays apd legal holidays and
after eleven o'clock week nights.
UNKNOWN miscreants broke open a
switch on the Michigan Central railway
near Hammond, Ind. the other night and a
SIC, 200 damage done.
THE main building OF the soldiers home
at Davenport, Iowa, was destroyed by fire
the other morning, causing $4,000 loss.
Cause, a stroke of lightning. No one was
hart.
DISCOVERIES have been made showing
that the Fifth National Bank, Of St. Louis,
which lately suspended. was ruined by the
cashier, c. C Crecillus. He was arrested.
TIE total vote cast in Cook County (Chi-
cago) for Judge of the Superior Court was
63, 342, of which Joseph E. Gary received
56,OS4 and Captain Black 6,25S, making
Gary's majority 1886. Gary was the
Judge who tried the Anarchists, Black de-
Tended them. Gary received the nomina
ton of the Republicans and the indorse-
ment of the Democrats and the United
Labor men, except the Soclalistlc wing OF
the latter.
Hon. WILLIAM r. MORRISON has declined
to receive pension Of 500 year to which
he is entitled as q survivor OF the Mexican
war.
JOHN e. WALLACE, agent for the Huron
Stone Company was arrested recently at
Chicago for opening mail belonging to the
Breen Stone Company. He was held in
s. GOO bonds by Comm ssioner HOyne.
LOUIS LINGG, the youngest of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, committed
suicide in Jail on the 10th, the day previous
to that set for his execution, by exploding
q Illuminating cap in his mouth. He coolly
held it in his teeth and lit it with a candle
in the presence of the guard set to watch
him. The explosion blew his jaw and
tongue away and caused his death in about
five hours after his desperate act.
Governor Oglesby was informed Of
Lingg's death, and in the evening
made known his decision respecting the
other doomed men. Fielden and Schwab
had their sentences committed to imprison-
ment for life, while the others-Spies, Par
sons, Fischer and Engel-were ordered for
execution the following day.
RICHARD E. WARPLE was hanged at La
fayette, Ore, recently for the murder OF
David l. Corler. The condemned man made
along speech, declaring hishanging judicial
murder. He denounced the lawyer who
defended him as his worst enemy. He died
Of strangulation in twelve minutes.
Tur Sn,,fhorn T1faS IN tho 18th vvaro 70
ported threatening trouble with the settlers
in the vicinity of Rico, Col. Many hunting
parties were off the reservation.
SPIES, Parsons, Fischer and Engel, the
Anarchists, were executed in the Cook
County jail at Chicago on the 18th. All
four acquitted themselves bravely to the
last. Captain Black, the attorney for the
doomed men, went to Springfield in the
morning and made final appeal to Cover
nor Oglesby, but without avail Much OK.
citement existed all over the country on
the day of the execution, people collecting
in groups and discussing the result of the
mountaineering in the Haymarket and ex.
pressing various opinions as to the guilt OF
those vino participated in that memorable
crime.
COMPLETE returns from all of the coun-
Tics VI 4OWa SibC IdkIdUSC AOI VOSCIu
plurality Of $500. The total vote was
about 1900 short Of the vote last year.
UNOFFICIAL returns from every county
in Ohio give Foraker a net plurality of "a,
353
A WHOLESALE jail delivery took place at
Tahle9uah, /. T., recently, fifteen of the
worst desperadoes of the Territory making
their escape.
IT, .;.,,;< ..,,-x - u,,;,.a ~.,.
O., has overruled the action Of Judge
Vanderver in appointing receiver for the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road.
THE SOUTH.
FIRE the other night burned out the Chat
tanooga Crenn) Commercial, causing s25..
OOO loss.
A FREIGHT train left the track at Wells
burg, W. Va, recently and eight cars rolled
down the embankment, crushing Joseph
and John Murphy's houses. John and his
two children were badly hurt.
The gulf department Of the American
Shipping and Industrial League met in
Birmingham, Ala, on the sth. Senator
Morgan made the principal address.
EARLY the other evening at Belleview,
twelve miles from Nashville, Tenn, on the
Nashville, Chattanooga q st. Louis road, a
passenger train ran into wagon at a rail
road crossing. instantly killing the occu-
pants, an old man named Marks aud his
little child.
AHORRIBLE accident occurred at Hop.
kinsville, KY, recently. A naphtha gas
tank exploded, killing outright Superin-
tendent j. r. Hawley's little son Walter,
who was sitting on the tank. He was
hurled eighty-five feet and mutilated be-
yond recognition
THE Fort Worth (Tex.) Union Stock
Yards Company has been organized with